terry manning

behold the famed terry manning cover of SAVOY TRUFFLE!!!!

ten minutes of unmitigated southern refry of this harrison classic!!! mmm tastes good! 1970 from the album "Home Sweet Home" on Enterprise records. no reish... if ya don't know, Manning was a Stax records engineer AND Big Star homey. more later...

shine your taps

wow... kinda been dead on here for a while. aw well. fuck it. here's one ouuta LA sun-splatter circa '77 (i think its a private, Cascade Court Recordings ring any bells?). i have to say i am definitely entertained by this. what is it? well there's no guitars if that helps. all keyboard, female vocals, disco-prog merger (track 3 is priceless) which if you can dig the vibe is worth your time, and i'll also say - hold on, play it a couple of times...it took me a while for it to kick in. i mean they put alot of work into this sucker. it shows. if you hate showtunes i'll warn you there too, it definitely crosses into some dorothy and toto action. but hey, where else are you gonna hear something like this??? for some reason the dub i made from the lp to cd, sounds great on my stereo but kind of staticy on the computer? which righteously sucks. but i'm not sure if i'm hearing things, so try it out, and let me know. i promise more posts soon. cheers, cary

Games - Stargazer

Give Us Back Elaine

i am amazed not more biohazard indie backwash nouveau heepsters haven't latched onto the two Rabble albums like they have Hackamore Brick and other transcendent dynamos from late 60s-early 70s frame. Rabble is clearly in that bracket, sounding like little else i've experienced in the '67 -'68 rock bag, and are worthy of heavy praise. i finally snagged the second album "Give Us Back Elaine" and its as good if not better than the first self titled effort. not really psychedelic, or garage entirely, it sounds occasionally like a Goddard movie put to the strains of canadian freaks who could pass for ex-zappa backing members, or guys with a velvets-ish bent but not the desire to be that serious or dire... like many bands that slipped through the cracks at the end of that great decade, you could get away with a lot without having to peg yourselves as A or B, and i'll be fucked if that isn't the way it should always be. a "BEAT" band like this could do some original things with their schema and geshtalt, and really be that gehstalt at the same time, while still being danceable at a club date. fascinating.

1. miss money green
2. here's your mourning
3. emerald green
4. candy
5. nowhere ride
6. buttercups blue
7. too bad
8. put it down to magic
9. please set me free
10. why am i lonely
11. there's so many things